"Sunday Times" View of Wan, hsien Affair The, following Leading artlet gppenrinig. ina recent ian we of th "Biouday. Times" ie" fairly" typieat the tien point taken of the Haman" The paper say For some time past it has been apparent that a clash between the Chinese and one or other of the} foreign Treaty Powers would become inevitable. The anarchy prevailing in China has long been 4 menace tothe foreign. communities, and hitherto only by the continuous exercise of tact and restraint has a conflict been avoided, Now the machinery of persuasion has broken down, and three officers, and four men of the British" Navy have been killed, and several others wounded, rescuing their compatriots from a bondage in which they had been placed by a Chinese act Dbrigandage, In mourning. the loss of its sailors the country will demand that their ives. should he avenged. The British nation takes no sides in the stand the consequences of her misdeeds in such a manner as will restrain her from repeating them.
a country owning no central government or authority mere formal remonstrance is of no a Intervention is neither easy nor, ina general way, desirable. But by the action of the Chinese, extremists Great Britain has been drawn into the conflict, whether she likes it or not. She is faced with! the duty of defending her name and her nationals.
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